Posts by samplereality@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #APdnaBegAvBjPoQjYW by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2022-11-15T20:55:16Z
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ceiling fans are fuc*ing sick. ROTOR BLADES ABOVE YOUR HEAD beat in time to the spectral hearts of a thousand ghosts they've torn to shreds.＊*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚we are gods *•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚＊
(DIR) Post #APfcunjNbqYS7LAxGK by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2022-11-16T19:03:07Z
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blogs are never finished, merely abandoned
(DIR) Post #AQ8EbHrV4hkxNpns2a by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2022-11-29T20:48:31Z
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Pong is 50 years old today. Little known fact: Pong has no code. Pong doesn't even have a microprocessor. Al Alcorn hardwired the game with transistor-to-transistor logic. (See Henry Lowood: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5223982)
(DIR) Post #AS8XT1sr7LgFZmupVI by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-01-29T13:33:27Z
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@clive This technique explains why I am nothing but side projects.
(DIR) Post #ASFc6JzoT2QXyojkaO by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-02-01T14:43:38Z
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Tell me your billion dollar business is a sham with no intellectual integrity without telling me your billion business is a sham with no intellectual integrity.
(DIR) Post #AT6xAx5haAo6vtJ9do by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-02-27T15:36:58Z
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After a faculty roundtable about teaching in the age of ChatGPT, one of my colleagues pointed out something he noticed: every discipline wants to claim ownership over the experience of working with and understanding the consequences of AI, as if their experience and insight is more authentic than any other. Lots of academic invalidation going around!
(DIR) Post #ATZ4FkkXiDEoR7mYE4 by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-03-12T16:38:02Z
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We can't forgive student loans because students knew full well what they were getting into but yes, let's bail out banks because golly shucks gee whiz banking is just too difficult for the poor little bankers to wrap their heads around.
(DIR) Post #AU977uEI3Rf9qq1Kc4 by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-03-30T10:52:18Z
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who decided it was called “emotional baggage“ and not “griefcase” ???
(DIR) Post #AUeBD8ql0wbC31KTSq by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-04-14T14:59:39Z
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Yesterday a high school student working on a paper emailed me with a question: “Through ChatGPT i find that you have a article named: "Teaching History in the Age of YouTube and Wikipedia" but i am not finding it”You’re not finding it because I never wrote it. ChatGPT, as usual, is making shit up.
(DIR) Post #AUeNTZ68OKE9XP7SwC by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-04-14T17:56:23Z
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@clive @aparrish But now I really want you to write article 4.
(DIR) Post #AVgc4qHnQZehdjglvM by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-05-15T17:12:51Z
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I have a digital poem in the new issue of *Taper*. It's called "One for Grundy" and was written/coded as I was struggling to make sense of my father's sudden passing in January. I turned to two beloved nursery rhymes from my childhood about the circle of life. The poem intermingles them, confuses them, rewrites them. Hit "More" to see other versions. And view source to see more from me about the poem. Like everything *Taper* publishes, there are strict constraints, in this case the code/poem could be no more than 2k in size.How do you reduce a life to 2k? Poetry.Link to poem: https://taper.badquar.to/10/one_for_grundy.html
(DIR) Post #AVgcilklhQQrAJHMCO by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-05-15T17:49:07Z
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@worldsendless Having the 2k constraint meant I had to focus, and once I had the initial premise, it all clicked for me.
(DIR) Post #AViVc12CAwnjAWBOMa by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-05-16T15:39:23Z
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@worldsendless The constraint is from the publisher...All works published in the Taper Zine have to be under 2K.
(DIR) Post #AWie4gb6eXbDcMZF20 by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-06-15T14:07:52Z
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It's the pinnacle of capitalism that the life of some guy on a motorcycle 10 months from now depends on my decision today on whether the tiny sliver of a motorcycle tire in the lower left square of a captcha counts as a motorcycle or not.
(DIR) Post #AWj1kM1xo9iewHy3fM by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-06-15T03:53:31Z
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MOBY DICK ONE BITE AT A TIMEChapter 3, Sentence 245(fragment) June 14, 2023Day 798
(DIR) Post #AbQeCWZJXpvQcYow1A by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-11-02T21:20:51Z
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@Roundtrip @clive @1994clipart Thanks for the shout-out! My alt text for @1994clipart is now at 110,000 words...and counting.
(DIR) Post #AbZY1yOMuHICQTvS3E by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2023-11-07T17:04:25Z
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@danhon @clive @tim Scrivener is awesome. One of the few pieces of software I have open on whatever machine I’m using. I hope you can get the Dropbox piece sorted out!
(DIR) Post #AtDKEAFCsN8xTKBika by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2025-04-18T01:29:00Z
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A great thing about the internet is you make something for free that thousands of people enjoy, and three of those people—complete strangers!—are angry that you are not catering to them specifically with this thing you're doing for free, and they will have no problem telling you that.
(DIR) Post #AtDKxi3pze1LNqaW6C by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2024-12-12T12:30:12Z
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*Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?*9+ factions of AI Skepticism (pushing back against Casey Newton’s facile take on AI skeptics). Which one are you?https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/who-and-what-comprises-ai-skepticism
(DIR) Post #AuyChs7OKl3VUberdg by samplereality@post.lurk.org
2025-06-09T21:57:14Z
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Introducing @YouAreCarrying, a bot that posts random room descriptions from all the old Infocom games. As a bonus, reply to the bot with an i or inventory to find out what you're carrying. It'll be a collection of items from Infocom classics.